2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 194 Death--Disposition of Dead Bodies
194.160. Distribution of bodies.

194.160. 1. The secretary of the board shall cause to be distributed the bodies aforesaid, to any of the educational institutions mentioned in section 194.120, upon the acceptance and compliance by said educational institution with the provisions of sections 194.120 to 194.180, in proportion to the number of students in attendance at said educational institutions where the subject of human anatomy is studied or investigated.

2. The board may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of such bodies, which bodies shall be well enclosed within a suitable encasement, and carefully deposited free from public observation. Said carrier shall obtain a receipt from the officer or other person having custody of any dead body subject to the provisions of sections 194.120 to 194.180 for each body received by said carrier, and said receipt shall set forth the name of the deceased, if known, and all other data that will aid in identifying such body, and shall deposit this receipt with the secretary of the board.

(RSMo 1939 § 10001)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 9130; 1919 § 7345; 1909 § 8326